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Enterprise Metadata Discovery interfaces and implementation for technology adapters

Version 1.2 of Enterprise Metadata Discovery includes enhancements for configurable data handlers, function selectors, and data bindings, and a way to build service descriptions using these configured artifacts and existing schemas.

The enhancements to Enterprise Metadata Discovery are useful when building technology-style adapters that transform unstructured data to structured data and use the existing schemas instead of generating them from an EIS system.

Enterprise Metadata Discovery and technology-style adapters use data handlers, function selectors, and data bindings in the following ways:

Creating services that use technology-style adapters relies on being able to implement the interfaces in the commonj.connector.metadata.build.* package or by extending the adapter foundation classes in com.ibm.j2ca.extension.emd.build.* package, or a combination thereof.

Implementing code from the IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit